Abstract:

School engagement is very important for achieving the goals of education. The  highest level of the school engagement effects achievement, attending school, motivation, willingness to learning, obeying the school rules and other positive behaviours. Transported education is inevitable result to provide the equality of opportunity in  education in Turkey. Todays, the number of the students who are transported is pretty much. Therefore, examining  school engagement of the transported students becomes more of an issue. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to examine school engagement of transported secondary school students in terms of various variables. This study is a quantitative research. Relational screening model was used from general screening method from quantitative data. The research group consists of 198 (102 male-96 female) transported students who are studying in secondary schools  in 2017-2018 education year. The students are different in terms of gender, class level and mother educational status. The 'Personal Information Form' prepared by the researcher was used to collect data about students’ gender, class level and mother educational status.‘’ School Engegement Scale’’ which was developed by Fredericks, Blumenfeld, Friedel ve Paris (2005) and was adapted in Turkish by Akın, Demirci, Sarıçam, Usta, Yalnız ve Yıldız (2013) was used to collect data about students’ school engagement. Statistical analysis of the data was performed by using SPSS 27.0 package program. Descriptive statistics,  Independent T test, ANOVA analysis and LSD test were performed and analyzed. According to the results of the analysis, it was observed that there was a significant difference in the scores of transported secondary school students for school angagement according to gender and class level. It was observed that there wasn’t a significant difference in the scores of transported secondary school students for school angagement according to mother educational status.

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